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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A four line stanza in a poem.






2. A strong pause within a line.






3. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






4. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






5. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






6. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






7. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






8. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






9. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






10. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






11. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






12. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






13. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






14. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






15. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






16. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






17. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






18. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






19. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






20. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






21. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






22. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






23. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






24. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






25. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






26. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






27. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






28. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






29. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






30. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






31. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






32. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






33. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






34. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






35. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






36. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






37. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






38. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






39. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






40. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






41. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






42. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






43. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






44. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






45. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






46. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






47. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






48. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






49. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






50. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.